Louis Vega
SOCIAL STUDIES
8th Grade
Chapter 3
: Section
4 East-West Conflicts
Conflicts
Land of opportunities
Middle class
1750’s Appalachian Frontier
100 miles
lack of surveying
Albany Plan of Union
Distrust/sovereignty
Loyalty to colony/England
Boundaries/disputes –vague
Maryland and Penn.
Mason-Dixon line
E.g. Quakers in the East vs. Scott-Irish in
the frontier West
Value of land
Protection
Merchants in East/sale of guns to Indians
Easterners in power
One man-one vote/representation by population
Bacon’s Rebellion
E.g. Virginia /murder of shepherd
Retaliation/militia vs. governor
Racism “all alike”
Against government/Jamestown/burning
Rebel vs. hero
House of Burgesses failure?/ not representing
the need
Conflict of interests